Species
According to FishBase there are 13 different species in this genus:
- Thymallus arcticus - Arctic grayling
- Thymallus baicalensis - Baikal black grayling
- Thymallus brevipinnis
- Thymallus brevirostris - Mongolian grayling
- Thymallus burejensis
- Thymallus grubii
- Thymallus grubii grubii - Amur grayling
- Thymallus grubii flavomaculatus - Yellow-spotted grayling
- Thymallus mertensii
- Thymallus nigrescens - Kosogol grayling
- Thymallus pallasii - East Siberian grayling)
- Thymallus svetovidovi - Upper Yenisei grayling
- Thymallus thymallus - Grayling
- Thymallus tugarinae - Lower Amur grayling
- Thymallus yaluensis
The Catalog of Fishes also lists the species Thymallus baikalolenensis Matveyev, Samusenok, Pronin & Telpukhovsky, 2005. It reocognizes T. flavomaculatus as a full species, but does not accept T. yaluensis as an independent taxon.
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